Ben Syverson

For mobile apps, SwiftUI is actually a really amazing design & prototyping environment. Once you get comfortable with the components, you can literally stub out an app faster than you can mock it up in Figma!

If you're not feeling imposter syndrome, you're not growing! Just remember that everyone is figuring it out—and people who think they've got it all figured out are probably headed for a big surprise.

Daily workouts—no matter how small/short

I was in professional design consulting for 10 years (at IDEO), where I observed hundreds of user interviews and feedback sessions about our designs. I can't tell you how many times I had designed a "cool" UI that did something clever, only to have users hate it and prefer the simpler, more straightforward version. I worked on a physical therapy app about 5 years ago, and I prototyped a...

For some reason, I used to be so intimidated by type design. I thought there were tons of rules and guidelines you had to learn before you could really start. For example, the term "optical adjustment." How should I measure this? Where is the formula? It turns out, "optical adjustment" is industry jargon for "eyeballing it." When Glyphs 3.0 (1.0) came out, I took the plunge and started messing...

Mattebox is a photo editing app focused on quality and simplicity, and originally launched on the iPhone in 2011 to great reviews. I followed it up with a very ambitious 2.0. Now, 10 (!) years after pulling 2.0 from the store, I'm back with 3.0. This new Mattebox is completely rethought, and designed around HDR-capable formats like Raw, 4K HDR and Apple Log. For folks on Product Hunt, the...